Navigating Chaos: Living the Apocalyptic Dystopia, LLIDS Journal Volume 4 Issue 1 Fall 2020.

Hegel wrote that the only thing we can learn from history is that we learn nothing from history, so I doubt the epidemic will make us any wiser. The only thing that is clear is that the virus will shatter the very foundations of our lives, causing not...

Neolithic genomes from modern-day Switzerland indicate parallel ancient societies

Genetic research throughout Europe shows evidence of drastic population changes near the end of the Neolithic period, as shown by the arrival of ancestry related to pastoralists from the Pontic-Caspian steppe. But the timing of this change and the...

Origins of human language pathway in the brain at least 25 million years old

Scientists have discovered an earlier origin to the human language pathway in the brain, pushing back its evolutionary origin by at least 20 million years. Previously, a precursor of the language pathway was thought by many scientists to have emerged...

Princeton SOA "Manual of Urban Distance" awarded COVID-19 research funding

Princeton University School of Architecture Professors Paul Lewis and Guy Nordenson have been awarded a research grant by the Princeton University Funding Program for Rapid Novel and Actionable COVID-19 Research Projects...

Urbanising Asia and World Knowledge, CEPT Essay Prize 2020 .

Much of our understanding of cities relies on models of urban history and urban experience defined by the study of West European and North American urban experiences and scholarship - whether it is Spiro Kostoff, or Kevin Lynch, Christopher Alexander or...

A History of Disease, Faith, and Recovery in Rome

What happens when an epidemic strikes and that profoundly human urge to kiss and touch items thought to be sacred becomes part of the problem?  

What HT Wouldn't Publish: The Folly and Vanity of the Project to Redesign Delhi, Narendra Modi's project for the Central Vista was always controversial. It is now absolutely untenable..

Six years ago, the then editor of the Hindustan Times invited me to write a fortnightly column. I agreed, on condition that there would be no censorship. While occasionally some changes to my text were made without my consent, there was no...

Great Wall for China?: Shaping China's (mis)behaviour, Is the government’s FDI directive ‘targeting’ China looking a gift horse or a Trojan Horse in the mouth?.

For decades, India and China were imagined by many as the future co-guarantors of the ‘Asian Century’. This changed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, when China saw an opportunity to cement its leadership by establishing either a multi- or...

Last chance to reconsider LACMA’s bad plan for a new museum?

In the coming weeks, galleries will crumble, ceilings implode, floors collapse. As LACMA’s own Twitter account proves, the teardown has evoked a cri de coeur — the image of the wreckage, amid so much recent human suffering, suddenly awakening a...

The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History II: The 100th Anniversary of Max Dvořák’s Death

The year 2021 will mark 100 years since the death of the Czech-born Viennese art historian Max Dvořák (1874–1921). After he moved from the university in Prague to Vienna University in 1894, he went on to become one of the most eminent art historians in...

Location: Czech Academy of Sciences; Prague, Czech Republic

Govt rushes in to check takeover of Indian companies after China scoops up HDFC stake; tweaks FDI rules

The government has rushed in to amend foreign direct investment (FDI) policy to monitor and check investments into Indian companies from neighbouring countries after it was revealed that China’s central bank has raised equity stake in HDFC above 1 per...

48H Floor Plan Battle

The aim of the “48h Floor Plan Battle” competition is to develop one drawing to communicate an architectural design. The participants are asked to draft one floorplan, with absolute freedom of interpretation, technique and level of abstraction. Even the...

BIOMIMICRY, 10th International Architecture Competition by Fondation Jacques Rougerie.

Since ever, nature has been designing and creating what is best. It designs the most beautiful curves, the most beautiful shapes, and provides us with the best materials and is a never-ending source of inspiration. Biomimicry is at the heart of its...

CEPT podcasts on 'Architecture in India'

Listen to the podcasts through CRDF Website Centre for Research on Architecture and Urbanism (CAU), CEPT University brings this curated podcast series on architecture in India as a tool to help students listen, reflect and self-learn. It will also...

A Poignant Ode to Public Housing, Screening as part of Images Festival, Ayo Akingbade’s trilogy No News Today offers an incisive glimpse at the British Nigerian filmmaker’s homet.

“Let’s get rid of the ghetto,” urges Ayo Akingbade in her brief yet conceptually rich short film Tower XYZ (2016). The first in Akingbade’s public housing trilogy No News Today, it screens April 21 as part of Images Festival...

3,000-year-old Zerzevan Castle makes it to UNESCO list, Ancient building in southeastern Diyarbakir province of Turkey was once used by Romans as military settlement.

Zerzevan Castle, with its unique architecture and style, is regarded as one of the "best-preserved" Roman garrisons of the world, according to UNESCO. The hinterland of the castle once formed the extreme borders of the empire in the east and witnessed...

$5,000 GRANT FOR A PROJECT COMBINING ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN, COVID-19 DESIGN INNOVATION GRANT by International Design Awards (IDA) and European Product Design Awards (ePDA).

A big challenge facing many during this pandemic is isolating a sick person from the healthy members of their family when they have to remain under the same roof. This $5,000 grant will be for a simple, practical, innovative solution for an in-home...

Memory Sites and Human Rights, MOOC Conducted by the Global Campus of Human Rights.

Unless it is nurtured by memory and history, human rights discourse is in danger of losing historical grounding and risks legalistic abstraction and political abuse. Why and how do we remember past atrocities and human rights violations? What is the...

TEACHING-LEARNING-RESEARCH: DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTS, A conference organized by Routledge, AMPS, PARADE and the University of Manchester..

In collaboration with Manchester School of Architecture (University of Manchester / Manchester Metropolitan University) Context: This virtual conference seeks to engage education professionals in debate and best practice sharing with educators in...

How do perceived and objective measures of neighbourhood disadvantage vary over time? Results from a prospective-longitudinal study in the UK with implications for longitudinal research on neighbourhood effects on health

Theories of health outcomes often hypothesize that living in more socially and economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods will lead to worse health. Multiple measures of neighbourhood disadvantage are available to researchers, which may serve as better...

‘Father of modern Iraqi architecture’ dies of COVID-19, Rifat Chadirji, the prominent Iraqi architect, photographer and author, has died in London at the age of 93 after contracting COVID-19..

In 1974, at the age of 48, Chadirji was jailed for life for refusing to work on a government-funded project during the Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr presidency. But he was released after two years when Saddam Hussein came to power and served as Hussein’s...

Photography and the Museum, Issue #3 of european magazine "Daguerreotype. Studies in the History and Theory of Photography".

It should be stated here at the outset, with the arguments of authors such as Urs Stahel and Elizabeth Edwards in mind, that the relationship between photography and the institutions appointed to collect it, i.e. primarily museums and archives, has from...

Open International Competition for Development of the Architectural and Artistic Concept of Moscow Metro Stations “Prospekt Marshala Zhukova” and “Klenoviy bulvar 2”, An International, two-stage, open competition.

The competition has become part of comprehensive work of the city, which is being implemented as part of the Moscow Metro development program. The Bolshaya Koltsevaya (Large Circle) Line is the largest project of the Moscow metro today, but no less...

Architect Jean Prouvé’s Work Is Still Charming the Masses

Jean Prouvé is one of the 20th century’s greatest designers, known for integrating engineering into the heart of his architectural and sculptural masterpieces. Alongside Charles and Ray Eames, Prouvé’s trailblazing methods and ideas are...